Many people will remember the TV adverts warning of a fleet of TV detector vans hunting the city streets looking for licence dodgers.
One sinister 1985 advert depicted stereotypical rows of northern city rooftops with their aerials quivering 'in fear' and then appearing to faint. Over this, a male voice spoken with an upper-class accent, sternly advised if we're caught watching TV without a licence we could be fined £400 - all the while a jarring orchestral score played malevolently in the background.
The plummy voice warned: "There are rather a lot of TV detector vans in this area tonight - new, more powerful vans. If you don't have a licence, they'll know exactly where to look for you."
